Any idea if the full ground will be open for the cup game, or will we all be in the main stand?

Only the John Street stand will be available for the game.

Radford has some tricky decisions to make now. We can't afford to take Sheffield lightly, but we have a few guys that could really use a week off. It's a tough balancing act.

Shaul
Lineham
Michaels
Talanoa
Naughton
Rankin
HTW
Feka
Cunningham
Bowden
Sa
Turgut
Abdull

Thompson
Howarth
BTW
Westerman (try to keep his minutes to a minimum if possible)

There should be enough quality there to get the result. At the very least we need to give Pryce and Mini a break, and if Houghton plays I really hope we don't flog him for 60 minutes again.

I'd rest plenty and if we get beat so what? We need to concentrate on winning league games and the cup is a distraction we don't need

I disagree. Even if we finish middle 8 it's highly unlikely that we will go down. We have zero chance of winning the league or even being properly competitive. However it only takes a couple of favourable draws and one upset ala Warrington 13 and we are going to Wembley again.

It would take a massive turnaround in performances for us to be in with any chance of wembley but it's quite feasible that we will finish 11th leaving us with only 3 home games in the middle 8. Does anyone know what the fixture format is for these games?

There's a matrix [url=http://www.superleague.co.uk/rlnewerahere[/url.

9th and 10th play four home games, 11th and 12th play three home games.

the 9th placed team will be at home to the other three SL clubs and the top ranked Championship club.

Look at 2008. We are no worse this season than then, but we got good draws are rode out look to the final. Hell we led the final with less than half an hour to play.

There are at least 4 championship teams in the next round. You only need to draw one of them and get someone like Cas or Widnes at home in the quarters and it's possible. It's optimistic I know, but we shouldn't sacrifice a competition that we might be able to win for one we definitely can't. I know we are rubbish, but personally I'm not concerned about relegation at all.

I've seen us lose at wembley enough times for now so will be quite happy to concentrate on the league

Bollocks to the Cup .
Play the U19s .
Staying up this season is all that matters.

Play strongest team, keep the momentum going, tough game, would feel more confident playing Wakey next week.

What about next season, or the following season?

You'd be one of the first on here moaning if the club played a weakened team against Sheffield and got beat. I get confused though because you keep saying you don't care anymore.

Surely you know the value in terms of revenue that a good cup run will generate? That's the difference between a profit and a loss at the end of the year.

Not to mention the invaluable confidence gained from a continued winning streak? Winning next week generates more confidence for the Huddersfield game. Another loss and the pressure intensifies.

Stupid comment.

cant believe some of the comments on here, a good cup run never hurt anybody and who knows how far you might get with a bit of luck, plus we wont go down

Pearson said that getting knocked out of the Cup at the first attempt last season cost him £50k. Tell him the Cup doesn't matter and to play a weakened team.

I'd like to see us rest a few players after another ridiculous Easter period. If we have fringe first team players who are fit then they should get a run. Going with Abdull, BTW, HTW and Turgut would still give us a strong team. One good thing about having a clueless attack is that you can't disrupt it by changing players around.

We could even rest Houghton and go with just two hookers.

Cunningham deserves a start. Howarth seems a steady player too. Sa and Pryce could miss out for Adbull and an U19s centre.

Definitely rest Westerman ,Houghton, Shaul & Pryce , Drop Naughton to fullback and bring in Abdul BTW & Lancaster if he's not injuried .

Lancaster has a torn hamstring.

I thought I read it about it somewhere.

we have to be careful who we decide not to play, we are short in numbers in the pack so cant see many being left out, also we cant take sheffield too lightly!

sheffiled currently holding leigh to 10 all

I've seen Hull lose at Wembley several times but would still rather get there than not. Sheffield are a good team, seven wins this season, so go with a mix of 1st team and U19's and rest those 1st teamers that need a weeks recovery. We still should be strong enough to win. I'll be there, was down in Sheffield today running the half marathon, so two Sundays on the bounce in the steel city.

First FC game I could have walked to and I'm away!

Should rest Pryce, Minichello and Westerman in my opinion.